Choosing Quotes
847 quotes by 669 authors
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
— George Orwell
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Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash…
— Alice Hoffman
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That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized…
— C.S. Lewis
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It…
— Haruki Murakami
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...a choice had to be made when your husband said something unkind. Specifically: be cruel, be strong, or sulk. 'Be cruel' by saying an unkind…
— Jaclyn Moriarty
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...every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to…
— Terri Blackstock
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To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit…
— Sarah Orne Jewett
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I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who…
— Helene Hanff
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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one:…
— John Piper
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In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered,…
— Bruce Wilkinson
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Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.
— Jennifer Armintrout
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When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that…
— William P. Young
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People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do,…
— Marilynne Robinson
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I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him,…
— Graham Greene
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Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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..Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and…
— Colm Toibin
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I have nothing against Sean Penn. I don't even mind that he ended up divorcing Madonna. I mean, I still like Shia LaBeouf even though…
— Meg Cabot
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